Progress slows until you reach a standstill.
However, negotiations reached a standstill.
They wait for the bus to reach a standstill, break the windows and snatch bags from terrified occupants.
Signs of a comeback can be found in sectors like auto production, retail sales and, little by little, construction, which is taking its first baby steps after lean years when building practically reached a standstill.
The NFL and NFLPA reached a standstill agreement in July, keeping the league's implementation of the May policy and the union's grievance on hold while the two sides sought a mutually agreeable resolution.
With Mrs. Heng assisting at the clinic, the midwife began to worry that Mrs. Sna's labor had reached a standstill and decided she should be taken to the hospital in Snay Pol, where surgeons and better equipment were available.
The real story, as explained by Linda Greenhouse, a former New York Times reporter who now teaches at Yale Law School, and Reva Siegel, a professor there, is that political conflict over abortion was escalating before the Roe decision, and that state progress on decriminalization had reached a standstill in the face of opposition from the Roman Catholic Church.
A recent meeting between Iraq's interim prime minister, Dr. Allawi, and a delegation of tribal sheiks from Falluja who have pledged fealty to Mr. Janabi is said to have reached a standstill accord, with Dr. Allawi promising not to sanction large-scale American attacks on the Anbar cities, and the sheiks conveying Mr. Janabi's pledge to halt militant attacks on the Americans.
A short article that Valentine had dug up indicated that the land had recently been sold to a large developer and was to be subdivided into three smaller plots with brand-new villas, but work had been sporadic and then reached a standstill.
Once the dice reaches a standstill, the Farkle game service is notified.
